It is fascinating to watch news reports concerning the happenings in the Middle East. It seems every mention of Israel is combined with words such as condemn, killed innocent civilians, destroyed buildings, bombing airports, etc.

Scarce is any mention of facts such as Hamas launching missile attacks against Israel every day since Israel turned control of the Gaza strip over to the Palestinians. Nor about tunnels dug under the border into Israel that allowed for the killing and capture of Israeli soldiers. And of course there is almost never any mention of how Hamas or Hezbollah, the terrorist groups operating out of Gaza to the south and Lebanon to the north, refuse to even acknowledge Israel’s right to exist. It’s a real no no to mention facts such as these in news stories where the goal is to make Israel look as bad as possible.

But somehow it is ok to call Israel’s response to all of this an act of terrorism. That was the response of the corrupt and scandal ridden leader of the United Nations, Kofi Annan. The U.N. was all set to pass a resolution condemning Israel for their action until the United States stepped up and derailed the effort.

What’s wrong with this picture? Should Israel allow their cities to be bombed day after day? Should they just turn their heads when their soldiers are killed and captured? Would the United States allow this to happen and not take action if Mexico was involved in measures such as this against our country? Remember, the soldiers were on the Israel side of the border. Liberals and the liberal press obviously think they should. They would also think the U.S. should tolerate it if Mexico was lobbing bombs into Texas. It would be justified in their minds because just like Israel, they think we would deserve it because in some way or the other we would be responsible for all the problems in Mexico.

Israel originally pulled out of Lebanon and the Gaza strip because they had bought into the lie that by doing so the violence would end. You would think the press and the world would recognize these terrorist groups will not be satisfied with anything short of the complete annihilation of the state of Israel. Israel is certainly having that point driven home to them again.

For Israel, and the United States in its war on Islamic terrorism, the answer is that it will take the killing of enough of the terrorists until they can no longer be a viable threat. Negotiations will not work with groups this warped and hate filled. While liberals may not like it, violence is the only answer. The liberal’s answers have now been shown to be lacking.

Israel is fighting a war on two fronts, Hamas in the south, and Hezbollah in the North. It is just ludicrous to think they also have to fight a war on a third front, the liberals and their press.